Global & Disaster Medicine

Archive for the ‘Elephantiasis (lymphatic filariasis’ Category

“……At least 10,000 people are still living with the crippling disease in Malawi, including 48-year-old Loveness Pitala, who developed the early stages of elephantiasis at the turn of the millennium.

The mother-of-six can no longer work and struggles to pay her children’s secondary school fees, let alone medical bills. But it’s the loneliness that has really destroyed her confidence – her husband left her when the swelling kicked in because he saw her as “disabled”……”